NTT Group to Launch Smart Cities Initiative with Dell Technologies

NTT
Group (NTT, NTT DATA, NTT Communications and Dimension Data) has
expanded its partnership with Dell Technologies to include smart city
initiatives. The companies will be collaborating on the first smart city
proof of concept with the City of Las Vegas as part of the city’s
digital transformation.

NTT Group believes smart cities are the natural evolution in public
safety that will make full use of next-generation sensors, ultra-high
definition cameras and other forward-reaching technologies. Today, video
situational awareness is a common practice used by local police and fire
agencies to proactively alert public safety stakeholders and first
responders to emergencies. However, expanding for future safety measures
requires infrastructure and operating models that can analyze and store
incoming multimedia data. These requirements are too expensive for most
municipalities, limiting the public safety potential of smart city
initiatives.

The new NTT Group solution is a secure, distributed platform that will
create and deploy micro data centers in proximity to sensors around a
city. These micro data centers will use advanced analytics for
delivering real-time data to the locations where the data can provide
the most value. Predictive and diagnostic analytics at the edge will
only send data indicating an incident has occurred or needs
investigation back to the core datacenter, minimizing data transport
volume and time.

The smart city solution is built on NTT Group’s innovative Cognitive
Foundation architecture, which enables remote creation, management and
operation of information and communications technology (ICT) resources,
from devices and networks to the cloud. It will also combine Dell EMC
hyperconverged infrastructure and IoT gateways and VMware vCloud NFV
platform hosting predictive analytics applications.

Once the proof of concept is complete, it will allow for proactive data
analytics to improve safety. With a robust and scalable infrastructure
supporting video situational awareness and sensor data, the city can
take advantage of machine learning to improve response times for public
safety incidents. After a successful proof of concept in the City of Las
Vegas, NTT Group is planning to introduce additional similar initiatives
in other U.S. cities.

“Our collaborative approach is unique, and we are delighted to partner
with the city of Las Vegas and Dell Technologies to help ensure citizens
are safe and critical resources are deployed when needed,” said Jun
Sawada, CFO, NTT and CEO, NTT Security. "We’ve brought together NTT
Group’s Cognitive Foundation and Dell Technology’s powerful micro data
centers to focus on public gathering areas and event venues. This
powerful combination facilitates effective and efficient rapid response
services,” Sawada said.

“The Innovation District in downtown Las Vegas was designed to be a
proving ground for new technologies, and this latest interest byNTT
Group and Dell Technologies will continue our efforts to become a smart
and connected community,” said Michael Lee Sherwood, Director of
Information Technologies, City of Las Vegas. “By leveraging
innovative technologies the city will be able to enhance service
delivery while helping to keep the public safe and connected.”

“This proof of concept testing with NTT Group strives to improve,
modernize and transform the infrastructure in our cities,” said Howard
Elias, President, Dell Services, Digital and IT. “We value this
joint project with NTT Group to roll out technologically-advanced
city-wide initiatives and look forward to helping municipalities
worldwide make better use of their resources.”

NTT Group is pleased to introduce the advanced Smart City solution for
the digital society era at Dell Technologies World 2018.

About NTT Group
NTT Group is one of the world's largest ICT
companies with over 100 billion USD sales and business footprints in 88
countries and regions, inheriting our story of innovation for more than
120 years.

NTT Group accelerates customers' digital agenda with full stack, full
life cycle capabilities and world leading research and development,
resulting in 88 Fortune 100 companies as our customers.
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